2007-09-14 08:25:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Ignoring all sorts of impossibilities in that question, they would look just the same as if you were cruising down the interstate doing your usual 95. Einstein said that no matter how you are traveling relative to light the light will always be going about 186,000 miles per second (the famous "speed of light"). They have actually measured the speed of light for light that came from particles that are moving at over 99 percent the speed of light themseves and guess what the speed of the light was. It was that old 186,000 miles per second thing. This is the speed of light in a vacuum and nothing can travel faster than it (don't let people fool you with tachyons and other stuff like that). Actually things can appear to be moving faster than light. A laser beam aimed at the moon for example. Give that guy a good spin and the spot on the moon will move many times the speed of light. But not the photons that make up the light.
Now here's a real one for you to think about. Suppose I set off some sort of bomb that sends out light in all directions so I see an expanding sphere of light of which I am at the center. Now you, in your little old corvette come speeding by at say 9/10 the speed of light and just happen to be passing me by as I set off my bomb. Now what do you think you will see? Huh?? ............. Nope not even close. You will see an expanding sphere of light of which you are at the center EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE MOVING PAST ME AT SOME INCREDIBLE SPEED. Do you get it? I will see the sphere centered on me and you will see it centered on you and moving with you. Now wait a minute, how can that be? I think kramer said something like "oh it be" didn't he? Well it be. Physics is weird like that. If we could zip around at near the speed of light it wouldn't be weird at all, it would be everyday stuff. But since we can only do at best a few thousand miles per hour (not even per second mind you) these sorts of things are not exactly common.
2007-09-14 09:22:35 · answer #1 · answered by Captain Mephisto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Einstein's theory of relativity provides the answer. Light always goes, and always appears to go, at its usual speed.
Observed from inside the car, the light shoots out at the usual speed of light. Observed from outside, the car will appear to be standing still (a phenomenon called time dilation); therefore, the light will also shoot out at the usual speed of light.
2007-09-14 16:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by alan_has_bean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well...yesterday i have asked this question and a reply was given to me that this question was asked a hundred times before....well its answer is; e=mc2
that means that when a mass is going at the speed of light, it convertes in to energy.so there is no possibility of driving a car at the speed of light.
2007-09-15 07:34:26 · answer #3 · answered by Princess 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
uh, nothing? the light moves at the same speed as the car
2007-09-14 15:43:31 · answer #4 · answered by Steph 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your going the speed of light you won't need light because you will be light., or at least energy waves and flat.
2007-09-14 16:10:48 · answer #5 · answered by Major Bob 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your car would blow up
2007-09-14 15:32:20 · answer #6 · answered by lilz472001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋